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    Airframe Family: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
    Latest Model:A-10C Thunderbolt II
    Last Military Serial:81-0962 USAF
    Construction Number:A10-657
    Compressed ID:Fairchild Republic A-10C sn 81-0962...
    Latest Owner or Location:354th Fighter Squadron, 355th Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an A-10A.

    Circa 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 81-0962.

    28 May 1994


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-10A Thunderbolt of 510th Fighter Squadron/52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem on static display at the 1994 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete, Suffolk.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: A-10A Thunderbolt, callsign Colt 01, of 81st Fighter Squadron/52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem on static display at the 1995 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    20 June 2009


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye
    Notes: Volkel AB, the Netherlands

    Converted to an A-10C.
    Converted to A-10C.

    By October 2013

    Transferred to 354th Fighter Squadron, 355th Wing, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

    8 April 2022


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Sun n Fun 2022, Lakeland, FL

    8 April 2022


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: A friendly pilot greeting the crowd while demonstrating a low slow pass at Sun n Fun 2022, Lakeland, FL
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